What caliber would you bring back from the dead?

[Saul]

And it would be legal in a lot more places?

An easy rebarreling to make your rifle legal and in a classic cartridge too.

 

[Betterinthebush]

The .32-20 Win.

My favorite small game/ trapper rifle.

 

[Grumpy gumpy]

The .32-20 Win.

My favorite small game/ trapper rifle.

Not sure if I’d say it’s dead, well, not down here, although factory ammo is stupidly expensive. I reload for mine, which is a 1907 92’ baby saddle ring carbine, has taken game but tends to just live in the safe and comes out for special occasions
Gumpy

 

[AckleyHunter]

6mm lee navy

Fired a super heavy for caliber 135 gr bullet from a fast twist straight pull rifle. Was rumored to penetrate feet of plywood.

 

[Flbt]

6mm lee navy

Fired a super heavy for caliber 135 gr bullet from a fast twist straight pull rifle. Was rumored to penetrate feet of plywood.

I have wondered what a 240 wb with a fast twist barrel and heavy bullets could do.

 

[ZG47]

6mm lee navy

Fired a super heavy for caliber 135 gr bullet from a fast twist straight pull rifle. Was rumored to penetrate feet of plywood.

6mm U.S. Navy, 112 grain FMJ bullet, 2,500 Feet Per Second @50 feet*. Penetrated 60 7/8 inch Pine Boards, placed 15 Feet from the Muzzle. The 112 grain SP bullet penetrated 12 boards.
Information from COTW 3rd edition, 1973. Reproduced from The Ideal Hand Book No 17, printed circa 1906.

*Measured via a Boulenge chronograph. Calculated velocity. Methodology is described in Hatcher’s Notebook. N.B. Capitaine Boulenge was, like Capitaine Navez—creator of the first practical chronograph—a Belgian artillery officer. The Boulenge chronograph was the culmination of three successive Belgian artillery officers’ developmental work, in a similar fashion to the iterative creation of the Minie system in France.

 

[Betterinthebush]

Not sure if I’d say it’s dead, well, not down here, although factory ammo is stupidly expensive. I reload for mine, which is a 1907 92’ baby saddle ring carbine, has taken game but tends to just live in the safe and comes out for special occasions
Gumpy

I know. It may as well be dead at the prices for available ammunition. I only find it custom loaded at gun shows, but, dang..!

 

[Creigh]

I have wondered what a 240 wb with a fast twist barrel and heavy bullets could do.

The 6mm Creedmoor is all about that.

 

[farmer_john]

Some dead, others with a foot in the grave.
308 Norma Magnum
300H&H
8x75 RS
9.3x64
450 NE
Looking at the new rifles and chamberings, 30-06 might make this list soon.

06 is my go to travel rifle.
I see alot of love for 300 h&h 35 whelen on this forum and i know next to nothing about their pros and cons would love someone to educate me.

 

[Flbt]

The 6mm Creedmoor is all about that.

I don’t think the cm can get the speed of the 240 case

 

[Flbt]

06 is my go to travel rifle.
I see alot of love for 300 h&h 35 whelen on this forum and i know next to nothing about their pros and cons would love someone to educate me.

I really don’t see much use in the 300 H&h except it’s a classic.
Some loads in the 30-06 are very close to some loads in the 300.
But I am not a big 30 cal guy.
If I am using a 30 I would rather go up to a 338 or 35.
The 35 w heavy bullets good speed and a 35 cal hits hard.
Mr Bob can tell you everything about the 35 w

 

[Wyfox]

Another vote for;
350 Rigby
318 Westley Richards

 

[Boyd Brooks]

256 Newton and the 375 Chatfield-Taylor would be my choices.

 

[Rule 303]

06 is my go to travel rifle.
I see alot of love for 300 h&h 35 whelen on this forum and i know next to nothing about their pros and cons would love someone to educate me.

The 300H&H is said to be the more accurate round and a better designed case due to the longer neck. I doubt it. The 300H&H would certainly feed smoother. I am not a 30cal fan unless it is in a military rifle.

The 35cal from the old 35Win and on just poke bigger holes in animals. If the bullet is travelling at same velocity, or even slower, than a 30 cal it still is a better stopper than a 30cal. Equivalent 338 weight bullet at same velocity should penetrate deeper then the 35. The 35 has more frontal area so more drag but also a bigger hole = more damage, more light in so more blood out. Also apparently the 35's are one of the most efficient rounds in most cases, as in brass case.

 

[RedTag]

06 is my go to travel rifle.
I see alot of love for 300 h&h 35 whelen on this forum and i know next to nothing about their pros and cons would love someone to educate me.

The .300 H&H Magnum is an incredibly flexible cartridge, able to effectively utilize bullet weights from 130 grains to 240 grains, and can do it with impressive and relatively easy to achieve accuracy, and strong velocities. The recoil is different too, more of push than a kick, due presumably to the gentle sloping design. Compare a .300 Winchester Magnum and a .300 H&H Magnum with the same bullet weight at the same velocity and you will feel the difference. The .300 H&H is also fairly efficient for a magnum cartridge. Very smooth feeding of course. I have a pre-‘64 Winchester 70 .300 H&H and it’s my favorite rifle.
Speaking of efficiency, let’s talk about the .35 Whelen! I don’t know if there is another cartridge that gives such a bang for the buck. It can come astonishingly close to a number of medium bore magnum cartridges in terms of performance, and do it with far less powder. You can use .30-06 brass to fire form and load. Mine was built with a surplus Springfield. Altogether a very cost effective way to get into true medium bore performance. I could go on but, there is little not to like about this one.

 

[DaddyFlip]

The 300 H&H is one of the sexiest cartridges alive, beautiful in its lines and its length, capable of almost anything, with performance on par with any of the modern short and fat "uglies". Yes, some of the newer, unbelted behemoths birthed on the cusp of the new millennium that should never have seen a chamber can best it by 100 feet or so, but these will be obsolete, I believe, before the Super 30 is put to rest. I've said elsewhere that a supermodel is tall and slender, not short and fat. There's also the issue of "newness"; the idea that old is bad and that which is new is good. I'll quote Tocqueville from The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution speaking of sentiments leading to the French revolution:

"The antiquity of these institutions (cartridges?) had not made them respected. Quite the contrary, they lost any credit even as they grew old and, strange to relate, they inspired all the more hatred as they seemed less capable of causing harm through their increasing decay. 'The present state of things,' said a German writer, a contemporary and friend of this old regime, 'appears to have become generally painful for everyone and occasionally contemptable. It is strange to see how people now judge unfavorably everything that is old. New impressions come to light at the heart of our families and upset their orderliness. Even our housewives no longer wish to put up with their old furniture.'

PS> Goodness the love for the 35 Whelen! It's possible the "big bang" heard 'round the Universe was God touching off a round after He had just necked up the '06 on the sixth day. SMH

 

[Creigh]

I don’t think the cm can get the speed of the 240 case

Purely for entertainment purposes, you are correct, 6CM doesn't get the speeds of the 240 wthby but the creedmore has a greater effective range because of fancy bullets. The 6mm PRC checks all the boxes and tops the list in everything.